midsummery

I’ve been out the door before 7am for the past week – Percy pyjama-clad in his pram, me walking and thinking and sweating. It makes for productive and creative days. We’re in [...]

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“A portrait of my youngest children, once a week, every week, in 2016.” Poet: picking dandelions, counting dandelions, threading dandelions (ISO100, f1.8, 1/1250).   Percy: he got [...]

art with pre-schoolers

The past few days have been spent indoors while the wind rattled the windows and torrential rain fell. The ground is officially soggy and our moods are much the same. Thank goodness for new art [...]

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“A portrait of my youngest children, once a week, every week, in 2016.” Poet: 6am on New Years Day and looking right back at me is the girl who loves so fiercely and challenges me in [...]

happy new day

I started the day by rousing sleeping children at 5:25am and heading out the door. There were a few grumbles but as we reached the stairs that led down to the beach the promise of a sun rise [...]

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“A portrait of my youngest children, once a week, every week, in 2015.” Poet: carefree and happy down on the beach. This captures her spirit more than any other portrait I have taken. [...]

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“A portrait of my youngest children, once a week, every week, in 2015.” Poet: counting frangipanis and then, once her dress was full, throwing them all in the air.   Percy: his happy [...]